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PRICHARD, Ala. (WALA) - Take a drive through Prichard, and you’re bound to encounter streets with missing signs – especially on the city’s east side. It’s been a problem that Mario Cannon said he has noticed his whole life. In fact, Cannon added, he saw a...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Good Friday afternoon everyone!. Tropical Storm Dolly is no more in the Central Atlantic. Conditions only worsen over the next few days as the system approaches the Lesser Antilles which should keep Dolly from reforming. What’s more interesting is a frontal low has developed off the coas

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop this afternoon across the Gulf Coast, particularly near coastal areas. While rain won’t be continuous, some communities could see multiple rounds of storms. TODAY: AFTERNOON STORMS POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY NEAR THE COAST. Expect scattered showers and th

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Aug. 28, 2026 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile Police Department officials said two stores were damaged after a car drove through the front of one of them Thursday afternoon. According to MPD officials, the driver accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake, which led to […]

Austal USA has initiated construction on the US Coast Guard’s third Heritage-class offshore patrol cutter at the shipbuilder’s center in Mobile, Alabama. The milestone on the future USCGC Ingham (WMSM-917) forms part of a $3.3-billion program to deliver up to 11 cutters under the series, all to take over roles of the a

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Aug. 28, 2026 MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile County man has been sentenced to prison time on a fentanyl trafficking charge. According to a Department of Justice news release, Horatio Tremaine Washington was sentenced to 60 months in prison. The Mobile Police Departmen

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Aug. 28, 2026 UPDATE (5 p.m.): News 5 has obtained pictures of the Daphne bank robbery suspect. Daphne police said this man, armed with a gun, held up the Merchants and Marine Bank off Highway 98 a little before 1 p.m. today. The robber was wearing […]

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Aug. 28, 2026 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile Police Department officers have arrested a man after he allegedly broke into a local bakery and stole cash. According to an MPD news release, officers were called to Pollman’s Bake Shop on Broad Street around 9 p.m. on […]

BAY MINETTE, Ala. (WALA) - A house cleaner in Baldwin County faces a felony charge after admitting to stealing nearly $400,000 in cash over several months from a client’s home, authorities said. Tabitha White, 28, of Bay Minette, was charged with one count of financial exploitation of the elderly...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - More than two months after the arrest of former Pine Rest Funeral Home director Tim Street, the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office says about 30 people now claim they paid for services at the Foley funeral home and got nothing in return. The sheriff’s office says...